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tatterdemalion@programming.devto
Technology@lemmy.world•DHS Inspector General Finds That TSA is Not Properly Safeguarding Passenger Facial Recognition DataEnglish
15·1 month agoAs I witnessed today, even just stating that you are opting out is not enough. You must ensure, of your own accord, that the camera is not directed at you when you approach the TSA agent, or else it will automatically photograph you.
I’ve also had a TSA agent tell me that I need to tell them I opt out before handing them my ID. This is obviously problematic but that’s just how this shit works today.
tatterdemalion@programming.devto
Technology@lemmy.world•Bitwarden Switches to Commercial LicenseEnglish
21·1 month agoOnly if you are reselling bitwarden. The client apps are still free for personal use.
tatterdemalion@programming.devto
Technology@lemmy.world•Federal bill would force VPN providers, ISPs, and DNS services to block foreign piracy sitesEnglish
55·2 months agoSo just browse piracy sites with Tor. Bittorrent clients might struggle to access blocked trackers, but the DHT can’t really be censored IIUC.
EDIT: It might even be possible to configure Bittorrent clients to use Tor specifically for communication with trackers (but not for the bulk P2P chunk transfers).
EDIT2: Not sure why I’m getting downvoted. Maybe the next person to downvote could reply and explain why.
tatterdemalion@programming.devto
Technology@lemmy.world•Federal bill would force VPN providers, ISPs, and DNS services to block foreign piracy sitesEnglish
2·2 months agoThey could also force ISPs to ban VPN IPs that don’t comply with their piracy blocking rules, regardless of whether they’re in the US.
tatterdemalion@programming.devto
Technology@lemmy.world•Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sitesEnglish
3·2 months agoProbably best we just let them think they got one over on us.
tatterdemalion@programming.devto
Wikipedia@lemmy.world•Notel (media device popular in North Korea for watching banned media)English
8·4 months agoDon’t worry. I notel anyone you have this.
tatterdemalion@programming.devto
Technology@lemmy.world•OpenAI made $13 billion in 2025 and lost $21 billion doing itEnglish
2·5 months agoWhat’s their op ex though? I feel like there must be a sizable portion of that which isn’t actually necessary to keep the service up.
tatterdemalion@programming.devto
Technology@lemmy.world•Google Chrome is killing all uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft Edge, Opera to followEnglish
10·5 months agoSeriously. If Google really wants to shove ads down our throats, they could at least regulate them so they’re not constantly horny scams. But that would cost them money, oh the humanity.
tatterdemalion@programming.devto
Technology@lemmy.world•Cars are like horses: people will soon realise EVs are just better, claims VW bossEnglish
1·5 months agoI never hear the end of complaints from my mom about how her EV’s range is too short and takes forever to charge.
tatterdemalion@programming.devto
Technology@lemmy.world•The era of 15GB free Gmail storage is ending (Update: Google responds)English
22·6 months agoImagine how much of Earth’s storage space is marketing emails that no one reads.
tatterdemalion@programming.devto
Technology@lemmy.world•Announcing ARC-AGI-3 - A benchmark that tests if AI can explore, learn, and adapt in unfamiliar situations. Humans score 100%. Frontier AI scores 0.26%.English
2·8 months agoI’m talking specifically about the variant of RL used by systems like AlphaGo.
tatterdemalion@programming.devto
Technology@lemmy.world•Announcing ARC-AGI-3 - A benchmark that tests if AI can explore, learn, and adapt in unfamiliar situations. Humans score 100%. Frontier AI scores 0.26%.English
63·8 months agoWdym? It’s existed for at least a decade. Plenty of papers about it. It mastered Atari and Mario. It became the best Go player.
tatterdemalion@programming.devto
Technology@lemmy.world•Announcing ARC-AGI-3 - A benchmark that tests if AI can explore, learn, and adapt in unfamiliar situations. Humans score 100%. Frontier AI scores 0.26%.English
914·8 months agoLLMs might suck at this game but I’m pretty sure Deepmind’s deep reinforcement learning AI could solve these easily.
EDIT: I know you guys hate AI around here, but you need to at least be aware of what the technology is capable of.
From 11 years ago:
I don’t understand how this serves the purpose of ad blocking.
This is basically the definition of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
tatterdemalion@programming.devto
Technology@lemmy.world•You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromisedEnglish
2·9 months agoOr if you have like $5/mo to spend on a VPS, self-host vaultwarden. It’s compatible with the bitwarden apps and browser plugins.
tatterdemalion@programming.devto
Wikipedia@lemmy.world•LibreWolf [web browser] - A free and open-source fork of Firefox, with an emphasis on privacy and security.English
1·10 months agoThat’s a valid complaint. I’ve never had issues on any sites with Firefox. If the tides change and I start having issues, I will consider finding a better browser.
tatterdemalion@programming.devto
Wikipedia@lemmy.world•LibreWolf [web browser] - A free and open-source fork of Firefox, with an emphasis on privacy and security.English
3·10 months agoI’m not claiming the Mozilla is anything like what they used to be, but the Firefox UX has not degraded in any noticeable way for me that would justify switching to a fork of Firefox.
You could say the same about patents for physical inventions. But there are legitimate reasons for patents to exist.